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Editor s note: This story has been corrected to state that Lt. Gen. Bryan Fenton will be leading the Joint Special Operations Command, which falls under the U.S. Special Operations Command. A previous version of the story incorrectly listed one of his commands.
The Department of Defense has announced 13 leadership changes for Fort Bragg, since the start of 2021.
On Jan. 25, the chief of staff of the Army announced that Lt. Gen. Bryan P. Fenton would be the commander of the Joint Special Operations Command and Joint Special Operations Command Forward.
Fenton previously served as the senior military assistant to the secretary of defense in Washington, D.C.
A focused and dedicated command that draws on the expertise of elite Special Operations Forces (SOFs), such as the navy’s Special Boat Service, would improve execution of ongoing military operations against violent extremism while enabling better-coordinated strategic planning. Up to now, the government, rather than address the lack of coordination directly, has stuck mostly to replacing service chiefs and increasing manpower in regions blighted by insecurity the number of which is growing. An advantage of creating a JSOC is that it would unify the chain of command; at present, Nigeria suffers from an overreliance of tactical direction from the command-and-control structure in Abuja. Bringing together the expertise of elite SOFs across the various arms of Nigeria’s military including the army, air force, and navy under a JSOC would encourage data-sharing, the lack of which has been a consequential shortcoming in the war against Boko Haram. A case in point is the 2011 attack on th
By RACHAEL RILEY | The Fayetteville Observer, N.C. | Published: March 17, 2021 FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (Tribune News Service) The Department of Defense has announced 13 leadership changes for Fort Bragg, since the start of 2021. On Jan. 25, the chief of staff of the Army announced that Lt. Gen. Bryan P. Fenton would be the commander of the Joint Special Operations Command and Joint Special Operations Command Forward. Fenton previously served as the senior military assistant to the secretary of defense in Washington, D.C. According to Fenton s biography, he is no stranger to Fort Bragg. He previously served as a battalion commander at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School and as a brigade commander for the Joint Special Operations Command.
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They’ve become a major military player and maybe a substitute for strategic thinking.
Within the span of a few decades, the United States has utterly transformed its military, or at least the military that is actively fighting. This has taken place with little fanfare and little public scrutiny. But without any conscious plan, I have seen some of the evolution firsthand. One of my early books,
Black Hawk Down, was about a disastrous U.S. Special Ops mission in Somalia. Another,
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